Take the Diversity Challenge!
Jan 16th, 2012 by Unamused
Happy Robert E. Lee Day, everybody!
We at Unamusement Park spend an awful lot of time enumerating the unique, uh, challenges (not to say weaknesses) posed by racial diversity; specifically, any large number of Sun People let loose in a historically white-majority nation.
Call it the Diversity Challenge. That makes it sound fun, right?
The Diversity Challenge in America revolves around the fact that blacks and Hispanics (and American Indians and Pacific Islanders, for that matter) are generally less intelligent and more criminal than whites; in the case of blacks, much less intelligent and much more criminal.
The Diversity Challenge in Europe revolves around an eerily similar fact concerning Africans and Arabs, but let’s focus on America for the moment.
We have demonstrated the truth of those (fairly obvious, inexplicably “offensive”) propositions about human biodiversity so many times that now I need only refer you to the Essentials page or to the relevant categories, Crime and Intelligence. So, given that they are true (albeit “racist”)…
What can we do about it?
Unfortunately, we cannot fix the lower overall intelligence of the black and Hispanic populations already in America, because it is largely genetic. This is not a pressing concern except insofar as a relative deficiency in abstract thinking contributes to a relative surplus of antisocial behavior, which of course it does, in at least two ways. As always, the African races provide the most spectacular examples (American Renaissance).
- Lack of future time orientation: why large numbers of blacks, whether in Liberia or Chicago, will defecate on public beaches if left to their own devices.
- Lack of empathy: why large numbers of blacks, whether in the Congo or, uh, pretty much any American city with a significant black population, can actually delight in inflicting pain on innocent victims, especially if they’re white. (“Knockout King” ring any bells? No?)
We cannot fix the higher overall criminality of the black and Hispanic populations either, because it too is largely genetic. All we can do is survive it: defend ourselves, our homes and our families. With that limitation in mind, today we consider one effective solution to the Diversity Challenge in America:
The Springfield Armory XD 9mm
You can buy one here.
Ooh, shiny.
Some of you may recall from our New Year’s celebrations that the Springfield XD 9mm is the weapon of choice of wildly popular blogger and commenter The Man, who gets the Official Unamusement Park Gun-Cat Seal of Approval for wearing it while walking the cats. (He should also fix his f*#$!@%& comments already.)
It is also the weapon of choice of one Rudy Kearney at the survivalist blog Preparing Your Family. In “Three Critical Self Defense Considerations,” he writes:
I’m going to be blunt here, and some of you may not like it. If it is legal to carry a concealed weapon where you live, there is no excuse for you not carrying. You are putting yourself and your family in jeopardy if you don’t.
A handgun is the best option you are likely to have in any sort of life threatening situation outside of your home, and is hands down the only reasonably effective self defense weapon when your life is on the line.
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Be sure you get training. This is not negotiable. You should look for a class similar to this one, or this one. Every region has good training facilities, or you could go to one of the national schools. But I’m not kidding. This is non negotiable. If you are going to carry, get professional training. …
Are you paying attention, America?
Are you ready to take the Diversity Challenge?
Don’t you want the Official Unamusement Park Gun-Cat Seal of Approval?
Gun-cat!
Yes you do!
I have a permit & I do carry. I’m a revolver man. S&W hammerless 38 fits nicely in my front pocket.
I took my kids and a friend to the library today, only to be turned away because of you know who… I suspect the library will be closed on Washington’s birthday as well…
I wonder if our racist Twitter trick will turn up anything good tonight.
By the way, you can consider this comment thread an open forum for talking about guns, crime, race differences in morality, MLK, and gun-cats.
How come gun dogs aren’t allowed to carry guns?
Damn, sorry. My prior comment I figured would go into moderation first.
Greg, the comment approval system is this: after I approve one comment from you, any future comments under the same name, email, URL and IP address will go through.
Anyway, I’ll drop by your blog later (again) and leave a comment.
I don’t know, AnalogMan, but here are a whole bunch of gun-cats.
Sweet. Racists unite…
Halfway to work today, I realized it was Robert E. Lee day. Calloo, callay! I was confident I would find a locked building, and drive back home to my warm bed. Alas, we do not celebrate Robert E. Lee day. :( I haz a sadz.
This is not a kitteh, it’s old news, everyone here has probably seen it, but I offer this in honor of MLK day. The good Doctor would be so proud. (It’s a video of another Preacher/Doctor type)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXQbZDwV0w
I took this advice 3 years ago (I dragged my feet a little).
S&W 38 and a remington 870 shotgun (formerly police issue) for home defense. They were initially for zombies, but carloads of ‘youths’ rampaging the metro area when the EBT cards run out now looks more likely. I’ll admit the shotgun has serious kick that can leave me with a sore shoulder the next day, but I think the noise alone from firing it would scare the sh!t out of a carload of hoodlums. The sound knocks the dust off the targets on the range.
Anyone have recommendations on wearing a shoulder holster, belt holster or other means for concealed carry? I wear a blazer often for work in a downtown metro area, so I might have more options than most folks.
Maybe this is old news, but I just read it today. A South Carolina nurse went to NYC. She got to the 9/11 memorial and saw a sign saying “no weapons” or some such. She asked the guard if she could check her weapon (she has a SC concealed carry permit). She was promptly arrested and is facing 3 years of jail time for unlawful possession of a weapon. The little piece of excrement known as Michael Bloomberg knowingly slandered her by announcing that police found cocaine in her pocket. (It wasn’t – it was aspirin powder.) Everybody, stay out of places like NYC for your own good. It’s truly foreign, hostile territory.
Off-topic, but apropos of the day. I came across this only yesterday in William Hannibal Thomas’s “The American Negro,” published in 1901. (I’ve shared this elsewhere as well).
Love the attitude but most strongly disagree with the choice of 9mm! I am a diehard .45 man so I suggest good White people please follow the maxim that “if it doesn’t begin with a 4 then don’t buy it – with the exception of the .357 magnum…” You all know how hard a primate’s skull can be.
xthred, Mr. Rational, mr27 and Jack Butler all get the Official Unamusement Park Gun-Cat Seal of Approval. Huzzah!
epic fatass if you haz a gun you will not haz a sadz. you will haz a gun-cat seal of approval
I hope she sues the bastard, Jane. (Almost wrote shoots instead — by mistake, of course.)
Sounds like what we used to know about race to me, G. Nomon.
This is certainly the place to make handgun recommendations, Jack. Wouldn’t a 9mm be enough for the average lawful American? Obviously I would rather they all carry AR-15s, but… y’know… THE GOVERNMENT.
My Kittycat Jack just recently met his cousin the Beretta 21A Bobcat. They’re now feline friends for life.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_nh/6718080399/
The Norwegian band “The Pussy Cats” performs a nice version of Ebb Tide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzEkc-Yebn8
patrick
mr27: I used a shoulder holster for a while. Not recommended. They flap around, and the weight hanging from your shoulder gets tedious. I now use the kind that tucks inside my belt which suits me.
Gun-cats… meh. How do you train them to retrieve a bird? No, there’s no such thing. There are, however, many breeds of actual gun dogs.
We have the right to arm bears but no one ever does. Homer Simpsonesque.
Bloomberg announces that something that he has almost no knowledge of is cocaine.
One of these guys is not like the other
One of these guys is Mayor of New York
One of these guys is a cartoon character
Can you tell me who before my song is done?
Amen!
First, what’s wrong with my comments? Can’t you leave one?
Second, and after you get that training (it makes a lovely gift, I got my wife the basic NRA training for her birthday last year) join a range and shoot a hella bunch of ammo. In the first couple of months we were shooting we were averaging about 1,500 rounds a month. This can get a little pricey, but especially at first there is no substitute for dedicated practice.
You can find cheap range ammo at this link…
http://gun-deals.com/ammo.php?caliber=9mm%20Luger
Unamused: a 9mm is fine and as far as I’m concerned the major bennie of carrying the 9mm is you get a lot more bullets which just might come in handy if a Mahogany Mob kicks off in your vicinity. I have 16 round clips. I only carry one currently but will be carrying two, maybe three in the near future.
Larger calibers don’t come without a trade off. Larger caliber means a larger gun which is harder to conceal. It’s also hard to go about your business with a big iron flopping around. What’s more, a large caliber in a small package is a bitch to shoot. Especially for women. And I’m not just talking about comfort. If you’re not careful you’ll develop a flinch. Not to mention you’ll have worse aim and slower follow-up.
The 9mm & 380′s seem to be a good compromise most people can live with. I just figure the best gun is the one you’ll be willing to carry and shoot well. If you’re wondering whether to go with the 9mm or 380, you should definitely go with the 9mm. It has a LOT more energy. The 9mm and 380 were originally called the 9mm luger and kurtz, respectively. That would correspond to 9mm long and 9mm short. Same bullet. One just has a lot more powder.
There are a lot of ways to carry but if you have a pocket 9 then IWB is a good choice. If you prefer larger hardware then you’ll have to wear a jacket, pussy pouch or consider a man purse. I’ve done all three.
I’m sure people will disagree with what I’m about to say but I actually prefer an old .22 Beretta I’ve carried since high school. It’s light, comfortable to shoot and fits nicely in my pocket holster. Plus, I’ve been shooting it forever. I don’t even have to aim it any more. I don’t even have to think. It just hits what I want.
A lot of people say .22s have no stopping power. And that’s true. But they’re phenomenally effective for headshots. Over the years, we’ve put down horses, cows, hogs and even goats. We’ve had 38′s bounce off without even making a dent. But a .22 drops them instantly every time. Small bullet with great penetration.
The Man – no, can’t comment there. I get an error message asking for a password. Same problem as before – has never worked since you restarted blogging.
I have the Browning 9mm Hi-Power, which I’ve had since 1970. 13-shot. Some years back I saw a 30-shot magazine, which looked really cool at first, but then I figured that any situation that couldn’t be resolved with 13 shots – I was probably in deeper do-do than I could handle, anyway.
I really wish non professionals would not comment about firearms. Same old nonsense cliches that are not based in facts, FBI research, or long term 1st hand experience. all pistol rounds suck, compared to riffles and shotgun slugs. Use hollow points and have a crap load of them.
I recommend Glocks. We used XD’s on my last contract and they are ok, but well there are reasons we normally carry Glocks. They are a standard from contract to contract and company to company. However the best gun is the one you’ll carry. the G26 is a very small 9mm. About the size of a .38 snub nose, but has twice the number of rounds. add a laser to it if you have the money.
the pro’s don’t use .22′s and neither should you. I saw a skinny in mogadishu take three 7.62×51 rounds through the upper back and keep running. He made it about 300 yards from the last round. Head shots when the shtf takes a lot of training, like tier 1 level. 1500 rounds a month? that’s less then a day’s worth of good training
Since this is an open thread, here’s an amusing debate (Dr Seuss Style) on the relative merits of AR vs AK. I’ve never fired either, so according to stonelifter I should just shut up, but I will pass on one cliche: Here in Africa the AK47 is known as the only kaffir-proof rifle, which is high praise indeed. If those bastards can’t break it, it can’t be broken.
@stonelifter
I didn’t recommend others to carry a 22. I recommended they carry a 9. Alternately, they could carry a slingshot. How many rounds do you think they’d need to reach tier 1 level with that?
The Man: I’ve never been able to leave a comment at your blog. Always get a “password” error, same as AnalogMan.
Patrick, AnalogMan and destructure all get a Gun-Cat Seal of Approval. The Man, you already has one.
stonelifter: Mogadishu? Okay you get a Gun-Cat Seal of Approval but tell us more.
And I’m guessing 10mm AUTO is armed to the teeth already. GUN-CAT SEAL OF APPROVAL.
Stone lifter, never been to Africa but I have been to the South Side of Chicago! And the East side of Indy can get pretty lively!
Also, were you paying for all that ammo? Cuz we were and it can get a little pricey. I mean we were buying a thousand rounds at a time for about $160 a pop and going through a box and a half a month. That made a noticeable dent in our monthly budget!
Am working on the comments problem. If anyone has any suggestions as I am not a Code Monkey. I was just able to leave one, but I assume I have the appropriate clearances. Mrs. The Man will try in a minute to leave one. When I fired the blog back up I loaded on a new theme, if you haven’t left a comment in a while will you try again and maybe tweet me with the result if it doesn’t take?
Thanks!
My platoon was pushing back a no/go area. Our youngest/ newest guy took a shot on a skinny wearing a red shirt and carrying a RPG. IIRC, it was around 400 yards. He took the shot and the skinny kept running; no one could see the trace or impact, and the skinny didn’t flinch. He took another shot, and the skinny kept running. He took another shot before it got behind a building and was out of sight.
The quick reaction force went out, and sure as shit found a good blood trail, then a RPG, then a dead skinny wearing a red shirt with three holes in its upper back. It ran about 300 yards with three holes in it. It did not drop the RPG until the last few yards. Before that I thought the .308 was some kind of magic death ray. A .22 is a lot less lethal. Especially out of a pistol
Spend some time on the FBI webpage; their research suggests folks go down due to psychological conditioning and not physical reasons; ie they see it on TV so they fall down. Unless your round shuts down the CNS. Even shooting someone in the heart doesn’t kill them right away and gives the bad guy time to hurt or kill you.. A 230 grain .45 round is what % of a 180 pound negros body mass? Add rage and/ or drugs and ….
I was overly harsh. Every White man is allowed an opinion. However there are more firearm myths thrown around than facts and most of the “experts” are full of shit because they’ve been taught the same myths the non-experts have. Folks should refrain from offering their firearm advice as gospel. I’ve made my living with a riffle for 28 years. I damn sure don’t know everything, and there are men with more training, more knowledgeable and experience then me.
The 9mm vs .40 or .45 arguments is silly. The FBI keeps good records on shootings by LEO’s and all three perform about the same. The argument had more weight back in the day; however ammo performance has come a long way.
IIRC, 98% of successful defense shootings involve one attacker and two shots fired by the good guy. A 5 shot .38 with Speer Gold dots will do you. Throw a laser on it and you’re the tits. I still recommend a G26; cost about the same; about the same size but the G26 has more rounds. More than double if you buy the right mag. Any Glock 9mm mag will fit. You can carry a small easily concealed firearm all day, then go home, and put a 19 round mag in the same weapon.
Most of my initial training cost came at taxpayer expense. My paycheck depends on my proficiency with a rifle; ammo is the cost of doing business. My point isn’t shoot 2500 rounds a day or you’re screwed. My point is the guys who make head-shots in CQB/ hostage rescue shoot 2500 rounds a day, for days, weeks, and months on end. Aim center mass.
For the record I didn’t make the cut for a tier one group. I work with and am friends with men who are/ were tier one. Their dedication to training and proficiency with firearms is amazing.
Glocks are the most common sidearm in my line of work. That says it all. I recommend 9mm; practice ammo is cheap, the recoil is easy to mange. Feed it something like Speer Gold dot or Black hills self-defense ammo. Shoot 50 rounds of cheap ball ammo a week. Fire one mag of your carry ammo after that. Dry fire and practice your draw every day. Use the money you save to buy a concealable vest. If you have money left over, pay for quality training. Still got money left over; put a crimson trace on it. Got money left over; buy a shotgun for your house. Feed it slugs, but practice with bird shot. Practice tactical reloads every day.
A Glock is about the closest thing to perfection one can get. When I wear a jacket, pouch or messenger bag that’s what I carry. But that’s not always practical or comfortable. It became such a burden I started to avoid carrying altogether. I could see it if it’s part of your job because you’re more likely to need it and you have the option of open carry. But if you’re allowed to open carry then why the 26 rather than the 19? It’s not ~that~ much bigger and your pinky has a home.
I recommend the G26 to folks who won’t carry a full size Glock, or for whatever reason concealing a full size pistol is difficult/ not possible. Or getting the G26 if money is an issue because it fulfills more rolls.
I’ve carried shotguns concealed for work, but I like it when my girlfriend wears black cocktail dresses. It’s a lot easier to fit a G26 in her purse. Which more or less applies to my beloved daughters.
Open carry is legal in a lot of states. I normally open carry because it makes a political statement.
I live in an open carry state but it’s not allowed where I live so I’m not in the habit of doing it. I’m not sure I’d do it even if I could. I don’t mind if others do it but I’d rather not have the attention.
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